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Nasarwasalam, Iraq, January 30, 2005. Iraqi women set out to vote in the first free elections held in Iraq. Security for the polling site was provided by the Iraqi Security Force (ISF) and members of the US Marines Corps.
Under the Iraqi constitution of 1925, Iraq was a constitutional monarchy, with a bicameral legislature consisting of an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate. The lower house was elected every four years by manhood suffrage (women did not vote). The first Parliament met in 1925.
Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries; Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States; Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) List of the first female holders of political offices in Europe; List of the first female members of parliament by country; List of suffragists and suffragettes
With an estimated population of 22,675,617 women, Iraq is a male dominated society. [32] On International Women's Day, 8 March 2011, a coalition of 17 Iraqi women's rights groups formed the National Network to Combat Violence Against Women in Iraq. [33] Yanar Mohammed at the Die Linke conference in Berlin in 2013
Ghana's first female civilian pilot, and the first woman in West Africa certified to build and maintain Rotax engines. [36] 2014 Nicola Scaife, from Australia Winner of the first women's hot air balloon world championship, which was held in Poland. [37] 2015 Dalia Iraq's first female commercial airline pilot. [38] 2015 Ouma Laouali
Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US. Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in ...
Women in the Iraq War (90 P) Women's organizations based in Iraq (1 C, 5 P) Women's rights in Iraq (3 C, 9 P) Pages in category "History of women in Iraq"
The struggle was led by several Egyptian women's rights pioneers in the first half of the 20th century through protest, journalism, and lobbying, through women's organizations, primarily the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU). President Gamal Abdel-Nasser supported women's suffrage in 1956 after they were denied the vote under the British occupation.